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Page 27In the Victorian era, before "sexual emancipation," the Virtuous Woman and the Prostitute were distinct and separate. The good, asexual wife may have felt
bitterly deprived at the thought of her husband in the arms of a prostitute, but she
was ...

Page 290Temples had their prostitutes, and one of the most beautiful sections of any
Grecian city was that in which the homes of the ... of verbalized and behavioral
values, the prostitute is forced into the societal definition and self-definition of a
deviant.

Page 388She could have no occupation other than that connected with her sex — prostitute, marriage matchmaker, midwife, perhaps a sorceress. Marriage
epitomized female subjugation. "With marriage began the most personally
humiliating and ...